Queen of Cups
Queen of Cups
Number 13 Water queen
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
empathydeep feeling held wellintuitioncompassion
Feeling, held without being drowned in. The Queen of Cups is the person everyone tells things to, deeply empathetic and still standing. As advice, it says trust what you are picking up about this, and be the steady one.
Reversed
overwhelmabsorbing everyoneemotional withdrawal
Taking on too much of other people. Reversed, this is empathy without a shore: absorbing everyone's state until you cannot find your own, or the shutdown that follows when that becomes unbearable.
What is in the picture
A queen at the water's edge holding an ornate covered cup, the only one in the deck she cannot see into. She is looking at it, not out at us.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: trust what you are picking up. You are usually right about people.
Reversed: you are carrying feelings that are not yours.
Love and relationships
Upright: someone emotionally present and steady with it.
Reversed: being the emotional manager of the relationship.
Work and direction
Upright: the person who holds the team together. Probably you.
Reversed: emotional labour at work, unpaid and unnoticed.
Money and security
Upright: generosity with judgement attached.
Reversed: giving money to fix a feeling.
Me, honestly
Upright: your sensitivity is a skill. Treat it like one.
Reversed: you need a shore. Where does other people's stop and yours start.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes: go with what you feel, which here is also what you know.
Reversed: you are deciding for somebody else's comfort.
If this card leads
Trust the read you already have on this.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, maybe.
“What I feel about this is information.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
